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VA Lays Off Mesa Developer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-not-very-cool dept.

j7953 writes: "Brian Paul, the author of Mesa, was laid off by VA Linux. Here's his mail to the mesa3d-dev list." Other places are reporting that Keith Whitwell of the DRI project was also laid off. Presumably just two of many major contributors to open source, but honestly I don't really know who got the axe. So far Slashdot has been unaffected by the layoffs (VA owns Slashdot too in case you live in a box).

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  1. rare photographs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  4. Moderators Should Wise Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is in regards to the temporary ban impacted on Angry White Guy's Account. Moderators have been unfair to new users who don't automatically get a 1 or 2 on their posts, targeting them and moderating them down as they would a goatse post. This is an affront to our civil liberties and is worthy of a /. commnetary.
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  5. Re:Maybe they'll dump CmdrTaco by Trollcaholic · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're Gay

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  7. DRI Working Group comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GOOD LUCK finding a new job!

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    Go fuck yourselves, Linux assholes.

    --

    This text, the very text you are reading here, was added to avoid the lameness filter, which, itself, is about the lamest thing ever.